How to Add Music to Your Music Library.

This wikiHow teaches you how to place music in your computer's or phone's music library. You can add music by importing it from an audio CD on a computer, or you can purchase music through your computer's or phone's music player.

Steps

Method 1

Using an Audio CD on Windows

1. 

   Insert the audio CD into your computer. The CD goes logo-side-up in your computer's CD tray.
   • If an autoplay window appears, skip ahead to the "Click the Import option" step.

2. 

   Open Start

   

   . Click the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

3. 

   Open File Explorer

   

   . Click the folder-shaped icon in the lower-left side of the Start window.

4. 

   Click This PC. It's a computer-shaped icon on the left side of the File Explorer window.

5. 

   Click your disk drive. You'll see this grey box with a CD icon beneath the "Devices and drives" heading.

6. 

   Click Manage. This tab is in the upper-left side of the window. Clicking it brings down a toolbar at the top of the page.

7. 

   Click Autoplay. It's in the "Media" section of the toolbar.

8. 

   Click the Import option. Your computer's default audio player will open, and it should begin importing the CD's songs.

9. 

   Follow any on-screen prompts. Depending on your audio player, you may have to confirm that you want to import the CD or select a storage location.

10. 

    Wait for the import to finish. Once the audio player finishes importing the CD's songs, you can eject the CD; the music will be playable.

Method 2

Using an Audio CD on Mac

1. 

   Open iTunes. Click the iTunes program icon, which resembles a multicolored musical note on a white background. You'll typically find it in the Mac's Dock.
   • It helps to be connected to the Internet while doing this, since otherwise your songs might not import with the correct information (e.g., artist name, song name, track order).

2. 

   Insert the CD into your computer's disk drive. Most Macs don't have built-in CD drives, so you'll most likely need to buy an external one and plug it into your computer.

3. 

   Click the disk icon. You'll find it in the upper-left side of the window.

4. 

   Click Yes when prompted. Doing so will prompt the CD to begin importing into your iTunes library.
   • You can also click No, uncheck any songs you don't want to import, and then click Import CD.

5. 

   Wait for the songs to finish importing. Once the import is complete, you can click the blue-and-white "Eject" button in the upper-right side of the page to eject the CD and save your songs.

Method 3

Using Groove on Windows

1. 

   Open Start

   

   . Click the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

2. 

   Type groove into Start. This will search your computer for the Groove Music player.

3. 

   Click Groove. It's at the top of the Start window. Doing so opens the Groove window.

4. 

   Click Settings

   

   . It's a gear-shaped icon in the bottom-left side of the Groove window. The Settings page will open.

5. 

   Click Choose where we look for music. This link is below the "Music on this PC" heading that's near the top of the page.

6. 

   Click +. It's in the middle of the page. This will open a File Explorer window in which you can select a music folder.

7. 

   Select a folder. Click on a folder that contains music which you want to add to Groove. You'll find the folder on the left side of the File Explorer window.

8. 

   Click

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